Aaron Shojinaga with Jie ShanAC Conductivity of Silver Nanoparticles(started in fall 2009 and continuing into fall 2010)The electrical conductivity for bulk metal is described by the well-known Drude model. As the size of the metal is reduced to the nanometer scale however, the energy levels become discrete, rather than...
2010
Lily Stanley with Xuan GaoNanowire Transistors for DNA SensingAs electrical devices have gotten smaller nanowires have become a novel material for use in fabricating these devices. Using nanowires transistors can be made on the nano scale. I will be using these transistors to create a biomolecule sensor, with the...
Kyle Strodtbeck with David FarrellMeasuring the Density of BoneDensity is a fundamental property of condensed matter and some recent work suggests that there may be a direct relationship between it and magnetic susceptibility for biological materials. Magnetic susceptibility may therefore provide a method to image the density of the...
Daniel Thomson with Glenn StarkmanDark Matter Capture by Binary SystemsDark matter is thought to pervade the galaxy, making up over 90% of its total mass. Dark matter particles traveling through multi-body bound gravitational systems, such as binary star systems or planetary systems, can scatter off those bodies and become...
Corbett Walsh with Prof. George Dubyak (SOM, Dept. of Physiology & Biophysics)Regulation of ATP release in AstrocytesCell volume regulation is of particular physiologic importance in neural tissues due to the adverse effects of even small changes in brain volume. In the brain, extracellular ATP acts as an autocrine /...
Alexander Wijangco with Glenn StarkmanConstraining Dark Matter with X-RaysDark matter is a generic term for an exotic class of particles that might explain the observed gravitational movements of stars and galaxies. However, despite the best efforts of several experiments, dark matter particles have gone undetected and the constraints which...
Sander Zandbergen with Tom ShuttReflectivity Measurements of Critical Materials for the LUX Dark Matter ExperimentThe key component of the Large Underground Xenon (LUX) detector is measuring scintillation light from liquid xenon in order to detect particle dark matter in the form of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs). Optimal performance...